[CASSANDRA-14582] Add a system property to set the cassandra hostId if not yet initialized

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.1-alpha1, 4.1
• Component/s: Local/Config
• Labels: lhf
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/33ff36cc42a083311065dee56adc1d72d6866f2d

Test and Documentation Plan

dtest: https://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest/commit/148f57ef8051adfa15d1fefff5edff2709f0c75b

• Assignee: Stefan Miklosovic
• Reporter: vincent royer

Authors

Stefan Miklosovic

Reviewers

Brandon Williams

• Created: 21/Jul/18 15:23
• Updated: 27/May/22 19:25
• Resolved: 28/Apr/22 13:12

Description

Add a system property cassandra.host_id to set the cassandra hostId if not yet initialized.

This allow to push the cassandra host ID when provisioning new cassandra nodes rather than to retreive it after the first start.